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Published online 17 February 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040216-7
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High life prompts genetic shift
Extreme altitudes have created different coping strategies.
Inhabitants of the harsh, high-altitude plateaus of the world have evolved to survive lofty conditions in different ways, a new genetic study reveals.
Cynthia Beall of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, studies the inhabitants of the Tibetan plateau, the Ethiopian plateau and the Andean Altiplano in Peru and Bolivia - locations where hardy residents routinely dwell at altitudes of more than 4,000 metres.
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